2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

hire thibs as coach + trade for promising but raw young dudes --> ??? ---> profit

works well with my theory that this round of knicks management has no actual plan whatsoever but by keeping a low profile and not being embarrassing could hang onto the job for years

watching some of cam reddish play now and if you went into a high tech lab w/ the express purpose of designing a player who thibs would refuse to put on the floor you would come up w/ something very close to him

thibs isn't going to optimize lineups ever so you either have to force him to via roster moves or get a different coach

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 9:45 PM (twelve minutes ago)

it's really funny the knicks deluded themselves into thinking that thibs had waved a wand and turned them into a good defensive team instead of accepting the obvious explanation re opponent's three point shooting. rolling out a starting line up of kemba walker, evan fournier, rj barrett, julius randle, and mitchell robinson... they really shouldn't be as bad as they are but that's just a bunch of guys who have no hope of stopping anyone + mitchell robinson who isn't exactly joel embiid as a rim protector, to put it lightly. the back ups just play so much harder it's pretty embarrassing

the hornets are in the process of putting up 160 on the pacers.

158-126 final score, do you care to retract your prognostication sir

xp yeah i wouldn't say the quality of the defensive personnel has changed much except they've barely had noel this year, which has definitely hurt them.

it's just a very janky team. they have a lot of nba players, but none of them fit or on the same timeline.

158-126 final score, do you care to retract your prognostication sir

― Clay, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:09 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hah i'm surprised they got that close! i think they needed to get 12 in about 4 minutes of total garbage time when i posted that

21 first quarter points devin booker

Oubre had 39 pts. Such a weird player

Bucks letting PJ Tucker go is looking like one of their worst offseason moves ever

his offensive play this season has been shocking

why did they do that

clearing cap room for Grayson's next contract obv

this is wild
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33153946/the-mysterious-fall-harrowing-story-nba-center

Scary. Sounds like they don't even know how it started.

so it happened last year during the olympics?? nowhere in the piece does it say when it happened. editing is dead.

yah tokyo olympics pretty crazy it doesnt state an actual date

Scary. Sounds like they don't even know how it started.

― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Thursday, January 27, 2022 11:38 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah possibly the fall a couple days before? the article kinda just jumps around and then ends, a mess of an article really

he's kinda just miraculously better? i guess thru the PT. crazy

who knows. it was like hes fighting to walk and hug his kids and then a paragraph later hes running and trying to get back in the league lol

right

best wishes to baynes love that guy

a mess of an article really

otm

editing is dead.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:39 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

noticing this particularly in sportswriting these days, just a rushed first draft then click publish, shams obvs the poster boy but its everywhere

it feels like windhorst got this story and pitched and and they said ok brian but don't spend more than an hour writing it up because you have to do 3 podcasts and 4 tv hits today.

Yeah. So what was the diagnosis from the Aussie docs??

It's buried in the text. an MRI showed internal bleeding that was placing pressure on the spinal cord.

Significant injuries continue to pummel the Blazers: The left shoulder labral tear for forward Nassir Little is likely to sideline him for the rest of the season, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 27, 2022

The G League players pray for seasons like this one.

Andrew Wiggins is starting in the All-Star Game. haha

the customer is always right

2022 West All-Star starters:
Stephen Curry
Ja Morant
LeBron James
Nikola Jokic
Andrew Wiggins

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 28, 2022

Wiggggins lol

AD to the locker room.

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) January 28, 2022

i thought they fixed the system so wiggins wouldnt get in

It’s the positional issue that wasn’t fixed

cancel the game.

starting two centers >>>>>>>> starting andrew wiggins, my word

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKJt76EVIAQgs7w?format=jpg&name=medium

media needed to make a bigger push for dray

According to that balloting Wiggins is officially an NBA All-Star and a "top 3" player in the WC. Hurry up and trade him for Simmons!

Seems like the t-wolves have a real defense these days

karl towns put up 15 shots in the first half he was reading our posts

shots are just not falling

I got league pass cuz it's only $50 now and I'm watching the game but it's this weird "mosaic" thing with four weird camera angles going at the same time and it's kinda making me seasick

twolves being better at defense than offense is bizarre to me

yeah it's been pretty amazing this year, Vanderbilt is such a good defense and hustle guy

haven’t watched too many wolves games, but vanderbilt looks legit. great d

i would love to read an analysis of what the wolves are doing on defense to be near the top 10, you'd think any team playing russell, edwards, and KAT that much would be bottom 15 by default. vanderbilt looks like a monster but it can't just be him. finch?

i think that the wolves are several steps away from winning a playoff series, roster needs to get better, then you need to take your lumps, figure out how to play when opponents are game planning for you across 5-7 games etc but even tonight tho the warriors found some breathing room in the fourth you could see the potential of KAT and edwards as the kind of shot making duo that can carry a team to playoff wins just on the backs of their individual skill and shooting